#welcome to the dreamhouse etc etc

[the-kipsabian]

@unlikelywrestlingfan elle look what you made me do

[nyxvamps]

Aphrodite Cabin:

Instead of being a life size barbie dreamhouse like it is described in the books, its very subtle, and natural, and soft

The outside is pink, but such a pale pink that it looks white unless the right light is hitting it.

There is natural ivy growing only each wall and onto the roof. It wraps around shutters and the frames of the doors.

It almost looks like a small manor. Looks like it should have been built on some far off hill that is surrounded by flower fields for miles.

The inside is very cozy and welcoming. The walls are a muted dark green and there are so many pictures, posters, mirrors, shelves, etc that you can barely see the paint.

There are bedrooms in the cabin. It looks normal on the outside but Mama wanted the best for her children so she did her magic on it and made it a lot bigger on the inside. There are bedrooms, four to a room, and the main room is more of a common room/lounge area.

There is a walk-in, expanding, closet where you put old clothes you don’t want anymore and other siblings can come and get some new clothes if they need them. (Other campers are welcome whenever invited. It happens more often than it should)

There are traditions that have spanned centuries.

There is an item from every sibling that has lived in that cabin somewhere on the walls. All of the pictures, posters, things on the shelves are placed there by a past sibling.

There is an ever growing stack of finished rubix cubes that each have a piece of tape with the time on it.

There’s a hook where, if your jewelry breaks in the cabin, you tie it off and hang it there. There is a necklace made of leather with a hundreds year old stone heart on the hook.

It’s gross, but there is a bowl where most of the family will put their tooth in if they lose it while at camp. We pretend that it’s a flower pot whenever others campers are there.

This is newer. At the beginning of every summer, everyone (if they feel comfortable) gets in front of the rest of the cabin and gives names, pronouns, and sexuality.

Bathrooms are co ed and there have been multiple times that someone had been late to an event because an impromptu fashion show happened in the bathroom

Unironically, there is a mirror in the cabin where, if you are feeling down, you go and say those cheesy affirmations to make you feel better about whatever was bothering you.

Mama actually charmed it to give the person in front of it a clearer mind and more confidence in themselves.

There is a goal, from the early 1800’s, to make the entire camp think that aphrodite kids are the weakest of the demigods.

The goal is to train up enough and bide our time so that we can destroy the entire camp at capture the flag.

Its sometimes opens up peoples eyes to how quickly people accept that all aphrodite kids are just pampered prissy rich kids.

etc.

[hollisterhunni]

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[moonymanoush]

Barbie Movie Review

Hello everyone and welcome back! Before I give my own thoughts on the movie, I want to acknowledge all the critics that have been primarily focused on calling this film on being “woke, feminist, liberal, etc. etc.” The movie is literally called Barbie — if you expected a conservative trad wife film where the girl is there for sex appeal or in order to further the male protagonist’s story that’s your own fault! Every iteration of Barbie focused on the doll itself and its ability to have literally every career possible while Ken was little more than an accessory. Even when viewers mention Barbie's Life in the Dreamhouse as an example of Barbie and Ken’s romance, they do not acknowledge that Ken has no aspirations, career, or life outside of being Barbie’s boyfriend. This is only to say, that this movie had a very clear trajectory — it just doesn't make sense if I show up to a movie like Fast and Furious and leave complaining that the film didn’t spend enough time on romance.

Beyond that, I went into the movie expecting a misandrist film because of the amount of feedback I had seen online prior to watching it. But it was honestly so kind to men. The executives at Mattel are treated as comedic characters, the kens are himbos, and Allan is an ally. Even at their most patriarchal, all the men are seen at most as misguided — not as true antagonists or villains of the film. Despite being a funny character whose dialogue I appreciated, Will Ferell is also a perpetrator of the system. Immediately after America Ferrera pitches her average Barbie idea, he shoots it down but only accepts it once it’s backed up by a man who says it's actually a good idea. It mimics reality in that a woman is never respected the same way a man is — ideas are only worthy of praise after validation from a man. Instead of seeing Will Ferrel telling President Barbie to call him mother as insulting to the actual creator and mother of Barbie – the doll and the girl –, it’s played off as a joke. The Kens also get an entire arc of self-discovery and realizing who they are on their own instead of in relation to Barbie. Honestly, I was very unsatisfied with how men were treated in the film because even after taking Barbie’s house and brainwashing her friends, Ken gets the apology and the comfort even though his primary motivation came from unrequited love.

The media continues to push the messages that stalking and coercion are appropriate gestures used to show love to a woman. For instance, in The Notebook Noah (the male lead) hangs off of a Ferris wheel, interrupting Allie’s (the female lead) date with another man, and threatens to kill himself by letting go and falling to his death should she not agree to go on a date with him instead. This is a direct representation of coercion and completely disregards ‘no means no’, making Allie feel as though she has a duty to go out with Noah. It further reinforces the idea that a woman has the responsibility to keep a man happy and her own wishes and desires come secondary to his. In addition, not only do these types of scenes condone behaviour such as rape, harassment, stalking and coercion on a male audience, but they also impact women’s view of what a loving and healthy relationship entails. I hate to go on a tangent about a separate film — but the message being consistently pushed is that persistent behaviour is romantic and men are almost owed a relationship.

Misogyny is an underlying theme in most media, portraying women as stereotypes. Women face the juxtaposition of being “not like other girls” while aiming to be viewed as conventionally attractive. The issue is that media, and particularly films, spread the message of misogyny on a subconscious level and consumers who regularly watch these films will internalize this inherently sexist bias. In the movie She’s All That (1999), the main character Laney undergoes a makeover and exchanges her smock for a tight-fitting dress to be perceived as more conventionally attractive. Suddenly, Zack, the male lead, finds her beautiful because she has adopted a certain level of femininity despite the movie pushing the message that she’s ‘not like other girls’. The propaganda in the film pushes the idea that if a woman is not feminine enough, she will not be desirable. By the end of this film, both of the main leads are classic stereotypes of what their gender demands of them. Many movies follow the same formula, a nerdy girl (who is beautiful by all means) catches the attention of a popular boy and changes herself so he wants her. The defining feature is that she never truly changes her appearance for herself.

Further, this isn’t an isolated incident or a recent trend in the media where women aren’t written as anything other than two-dimensional and vapid. Legends have been told from the beginning of time punishing women for the crime of existing. In “Spiders in the Hairdo”, Jan Harold Brunvand's Encyclopedia of Urban Legends observes that “In a thirteenth-century English exemplum a vain woman who was habitually late for mass because she spent too much time arranging her hair was visited by the devil in the form of a spider that attached itself to her coiffure.” This goes to show that there is a definite religious interpretation of these legends, due to many religions condemning vanity. Self-obsession is seen as a form of idolatry where they compare themselves to the greatness of God, distancing themselves from religion and faith. (Living Faith: Daily Catholic Devotions) The woman is late to mass — a religious showing of faith in God — because of her vanity, ergo that very quality is something to be condemned and punished.

Another interpretation is purity culture and the belief that a woman who takes care of her appearance is doing it to impress men. This ties closely with religion, but it involves the belief that women who are sexually active or are around the opposite gender are something shameful. A man sleeps around and is a stud, a player — a woman doing the same is a whore, a slut, a hussy. The patriarchy reinforces structural violence against women by projecting discriminatory gender roles that often place limitations on how far they can go. In “Curses! Broiled Again!” Jan Harold Brunvand's Encyclopedia of Urban Legends notes, "Besides this technological naïveté, the story comments on youthful vanity and carelessness.” Brunvand states that the woman in this legend, and the one before it, are young, careless girls who care more about their beauty than any internal qualities.

Women aren’t allowed to have their own characteristics, careers, or any aspirations that don’t involve marriage and children. A simple reflection of women existing outside of the scope of being someone’s wife or mother is enough to enrage the simplest of men, which is why Barbie has received so much backlash. I generally find it upsetting that men refuse to engage in media that criticizes them. Women watched this film and analyzed every bit while men focus on mojo dojo casa house and insulting any female leads.

My overall favourite quotes:

“We mothers stand still so our daughters can look back to see how far they’ve come”

“Women hate women, men hate women. It’s the one thing we can all agree on.”

“I’m a man with no power, does that make me a woman?”

Another scene worth commending is the one with Barbie telling the older woman “You’re so beautiful.” her response is “I know it.”

Regardless, this film criticizing the system while being created by a multi-billion dollar corporation is partially hypocritical to me. I would've appreciated seeing the struggles of intersectionality addressed as well as capitalism, but the men in charge are seen as funny little men who aren't actively exploiting the working class and promoting the ideology of consumerism. This movie isn't meant to change your whole reality or provoke a strong hatred because it’s very much a surface level analysis of a woman’s role in society. It could’ve been better but the criticism and backlash strawmans the main point of the movie. Overall, a fun watch! Let me know your thoughts too!

Sorry for being massively inconsistent but hopefully more posts to come soon!

[tom-whore-dleston]

Barbie and the 900 Followers

HOLY SHIZZZ!!! I'm freaking out in silence but I am just extremely thankful to have met so many amazing folks like y'all! I love you guys for real 🥹🫶🏽

Since the Barbie movie releases in almost a year, I thought I'd hype up the movie in advance with a Barbie themed sleepover. No sleepover is complete without our fave doll 😊 Plus, Simu is in it so I gotta give the husband my full support bahaha

*in Margot Robbie's Barbie voice* NOW WHO'S READY FOR SOME FUN????

In the Barbie world:

Starts: July 16 @ 9am (PST)

Ends: July 18 @ 11:59pm (PST)

You are welcome to send in asks before the sleepover starts, but I won’t start responding to them until the start time.

As always, please be 18+ to participate! If I do not see any indication of your age in your bio or you do not have any posts/reblogs, you will be blocked! No exceptions!!

You don’t have to be following me to participate. Everyone is welcome 😊

I disabled anon feature to avoid meanies and minors.

Please send one emoji per ask. You don’t have to worry about spamming my inbox, I will see everything 😉

I will not write/discuss anything revolving around non-con, underage, a/b/o, bathroom kinks, blood kinks (only exception is vampire AU if applicable), incest, step-cest, foot fetish, pregnancy/babies.

I only write for female reader inserts with no specific race/ethnicity, hair/eye/skin color, body type, etc.

I reserve the right to deny writing/discussing any other things that make me uncomfortable.

C'mon Barbie, let's go party!

Ken Loves Barbie 👩🏼‍❤️‍💋‍👨🏼 - Mutuals only! ask me who I ship you with and I will write a lil sumn on your relationship with them (will only ship with fictional hotties) 

Blonde Bimbo Girl 👱🏻‍♀️ - Writer followers! send me a fic that you wrote and I will give you a good ol’ tom-whore-dleston essay review

Life in plastic 👠 - Send me a hottie and a prompt from one of lists below and I'll write a quick fic (feel free to add AUs/tropes/etc. for some flavor)

fluff/smut/physical || angst 1 & 2

You're my doll 💄 - Let’s play an ask game (cym, fmk, wyr, etc). Feel free to spice it up to your liking 😉

Dress me up👗 - Send me any scenarios or concepts that you envision for any of my AUs (Teach Me Tonight, Honey Baby, The Avengers Sweethearts) and I will write a drabble or head canon for them

Dreamhouse Adventures 🏠 - send me an AU/trope + hottie and I will make a moodboard (check out previous moodboards I have made for ideas)

Feel the glamour in pink 💖 - the floor is yours to get to know me better, thirst over a hottie, talk about your day, etc. Please just be respectful and do not send me any celeb discourse!

Oh, I love you, Ken 💘

♥ Real life hotties ♥

Simu Liu*, Tom Hiddleston, Tom Holland, Austin Butler*, Barry Keoghan, Andrew Garfield, Harry Styles, Oscar Isaac, Michael B. Jordan, Benedict Cumberbatch, Hayden Christensen

♥ Fictional hotties ♥

Marvel: Loki Laufeyson, Xu Shang-Chi/Shangqi*, Peter Parker (any variant), Xu Wenwu, Erik Kilmonger, Scott Lang, Thor Odinson*, Druig, Kingo, Eros/Starfox, Sam Wilson, Pietro Maximoff (Age of Ultron), Joaquin Torres, Bucky Barnes, Moonknight (all alters)*, Stephen Strange

Star Wars: Din Djarin, Anakin Skywalker*, Obi Wan Kenobi, Poe Dameron

Other: Kim Jung* (Kim’s Convenience), any of Sim Liu’s SNL characters (I am dead serious), Adam (Only Lovers Left Alive), Johnathan Pine (The Night Manager), Robert Laing (High Rise), James Conrad (Kong: Skull Island), Nathan Drake (Uncharted), Arvin Russel (The Devil All The Time)

An * indicates who I am simping for most at the moment and highly encourage asks for them!

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[nothingman]

In June, a crowd of over 400 sex workers, activists, organizers and allies convened across from the Stonewall Inn to celebrate International Whore’s Day. Sex workers, who belong to a criminalized and marginalized community, gathered in celebration and in protest. Their demonstration made a statement—that, even in the face of ever-present policing and a new wave of harmful legislation, sex workers can and will gather out in the open to flex their political muscle. This was best articulated in a chant, near the end of the protest, for congressional candidate Suraj Patel.

Patel is challenging Carolyn Maloney for her 12th District seat in the upcoming New York Democratic primary. In addition to being a 25-year incumbent, Maloney is also a co-sponsor of FOSTA. FOSTA and its sister Senate bill, SESTA, were ostensibly designed to fight sex trafficking. Already, the legislation has resulted in numerous websites self-censoring, for fear that they will be held liable for “facilitating prostitution.” Rather than, say, providing resources to trafficking survivors, community organizers and sex workers report that FOSTA-SESTA has served to shut down platforms for advertising and screening clients, pushing sex workers into the streets and halting online communication and harm reduction.

Standing in the crowd of protest signs and red parasols, Patel got to hear hundreds of community members and allies screaming his name, as an organizer urged protestors to “show up for someone who stands up for us.” She continued, “Let’s show the nation you don’t need to throw sex workers under the bus to win an election.”

In a courtyard outside of his campaign offices, Patel described being completely overwhelmed by the crowd’s support. “I’m just a first-time candidate, I’m 34 years old—eight months ago I was a completely private citizen,” he told The Daily Beast. “So it’s strange to be honest with you, and a little overwhelming. A lot of people are counting on this campaign to win.”

While the hotel executive and NYU business ethics professor has gotten a good deal of press exposure for being the rare anti-FOSTA-SESTA candidate, he didn’t initially aim to align his campaign with sex workers’ rights. In fact, Patel says that he had no idea what FOSTA-SESTA was when he started out. He was quickly inundated with messages from constituents, asking him what he planned to do about his opponent’s pet bill. “Honest to God, the first few days we just ignored it,” Patel admitted. “We Googled it and were like whoa, probably don’t want to touch that, kept moving.” But as time went on, and the messages kept coming, he decided to revisit it, thinking, “Maloney’s a big champion of this thing, let’s at least look at it and see what it is.” His campaign spent two months working with various organizations, talking to sex workers and trafficking survivors, people who opposed FOSTA-SESTA and people who championed it.

“Not only are people being hurt by this, trans women especially, but it’s actually become harder to prosecute trafficking.”

“We realized there are a lot of people being hurt out there,” Patel recalled, adding, “Harm reduction is the number one principle that I want to start this campaign with. Legislating morality is way above my pay grade, and I do not plan to do it. Ever. But we have caused harm, by our own doing, and we have not solved the trafficking problem. Not only are people being hurt by this, trans women especially, but it’s actually become harder to prosecute trafficking.”

“Clearly this is like a Mike Pence-y, moralizing bill because sex trafficking isn’t even the largest form of trafficking!” Patel offered. “If we cared about trafficking, we’d talk more broadly about labor trafficking—and of course undocumented immigrants, who don’t have any recourse in the police and the criminal justice system. But we didn’t. And so clearly the motives were skewed, and Democrats fell for the trap, as they tend to often do.”

He continued, “So I think that it’s important that we offer an alternative to the actual problem they were saying they were going to solve, and then say, what you really were trying to do is moralize around sex work and stigmatize it further.”

Patel conceptualizes his fight against FOSTA-SESTA within a larger framework. He emphasized that the legislation affects “the most marginalized among us,” including but not limited to trans folks, people of color, and undocumented people. Talking about FOSTA-SESTA lends itself to a conversation about mass incarceration and harmful policing—and it is Patel’s belief that the diverse, educated, extremely liberal district he seeks to represent ought to be at the forefront of these debates. Or as he puts it, “If we don’t look at prevention instead of punishment here, across all kinds of criminal justice issues, not just SESTA-FOSTA, then who will?”

As a candidate who “plans to win,” Patel aspires to raise up the sex-worker community that has literally rallied behind him. “I get to move in places and hallways that sex workers don’t get to yet. And therefore, my allyship is one to elevate their voices, and destigmatize sex work.”

A day later, on a scorching-hot New York City Saturday, Patel was in Ridgewood trying to do just that. With Survivors Against SESTA, Patel’s campaign organized a town hall for sex workers and allies. It was billed as an opportunity for the community to ask Patel questions, share experiences and concerns, and generally hold space.

Two hundred people packed into The Dreamhouse, a DIY venue draped in chandeliers and gilded mirrors. For the event, the club was filled with chairs circling a makeshift stage. Lola, an organizer with Survivors Against SESTA, welcomed the crowd.

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On the phone a few days before the town hall, Lola stressed that Patel was a singular candidate. “We have a lot of conversations with various elected officials at various levels of office where they will seem to understand the issues that we talk about, and then just feel like they don’t have the political cover to support us publicly,” she explained. “And so that I think is what’s really different about Suraj, is that he’s not ashamed, and he’s actually actively and explicitly supporting the safety of sex workers.” In speaking up for sex workers, Patel has gained some vocal supporters. According to Lola, “We know a lot of sex workers who’ve canvassed for the campaign because of his positions on sex work. People have done a ton of spreading word about it on social media. I know people who registered to vote who were not previously registered to vote in Democratic primaries, just so they could vote for Suraj.”

While sex workers are still very much reeling from FOSTA-SESTA, Lola posited that the “devastating” legislation has also managed to catalyze the community: “Because of how swift that devastation was, it politicized a lot of people who weren’t previously politicized, and media also began covering the harm in such a way that in previous times sex workers weren’t really covered. So it sort of gave people more room to think about this issue critically instead of just having that immediate response of, ‘Oh, sex work is trafficking, all women are exploited, etc.’”

“Obviously we really hope that Suraj will win, we hope that he’ll be an advocate for us in Congress,” Lola concluded. “But at the end of the day, even if he doesn’t, this is a really big step in the right direction for us, because the entire campaign shows that you can support sex workers and still do OK, and actually get a really positive community response from it.”

Ceyenne Doroshow, the Founder and Director of the advocacy organization GLITS (Gays and Lesbians Living In a Transgender Society), explained why so many people were sacrificing a day at the beach to sit in a dark room in Ridgewood. “Our community is getting raped, beaten, murdered, and we have no way to defend ourselves,” she said, introducing Patel to the crowd. “Suraj, you’re our way.”

Doroshow joined Cecilia Gentili of GMHC and Womankind’s Aya Tasaki in a panel discussion that hit on the aftermath of FOSTA-SESTA and potential next steps. Gentili, who’s the Director of Policy at GMHC, “the world’s first and leading provider of HIV/AIDS prevention, care and advocacy,” spoke candidly about what she’s been seeing in the community: “Specifically right now in Jackson Heights, there’s been a tremendous number of violence against sex workers that identify as trans and are undocumented. And because they are sex workers, because they are undocumented, and because they are trans, these people are not comfortable with coming out in any kind of way.” She added that, “These people were doing sex work in their houses, in their places, and it was relatively safe for them. But because they are unable to advertise online, they have been forced to go back to the streets, where all these predators are going to them and stealing their money, violently approach them, rape them.”

“There was this girl last week that was stabbed five times. Five fucking times,” Gentili said, visibly emotional. “That’s how bad it is. That’s what SESTA and FOSTA is doing to the community.” As a transgender woman who was formerly undocumented, Gentili spoke on undocumented trans people who do sex work “because they make the decision to do, or because it’s the only thing that we can do. Because realistically, nobody offers many jobs to trans people, and there are not many jobs that a person without documented status can do here.” Trans people disproportionately engage in sex work, and are disproportionately targeted and policed for doing so. FOSTA-SESTA has only increased the danger. “I’m tired of us being stabbed, beaten, robbed, chased,” Doroshow offered. “And then we wind up being criminalized.” 

Still, Gentili offered a note of hope: “I dreamt years ago of the days when a politician was going to be with me, talking about what sex work looks like for an undocumented trans woman. And check this out: it’s happening now, and it’s happening out of struggle.”

Tasaki, Manager of Policy and Advocacy at Womankind, formerly the New York Asian Women’s Center, echoed Doroshow and Gentili’s testimonies while also offering a tip to outsiders attempting to catalogue community harm. “What we are demanded by all of these funders and politicians is like, give us numbers,” Tasaki said. “Give us all of the proof. And it’s like, just trust us. Just listen to our stories. It doesn’t seem to be enough for leaders like Ceyenne and Cecilia to be like, this is happening in my community! Somehow still, the system is requiring us to bulk that up with numbers…These are the deaths. How many more do you need for you to believe us?”

During his remarks, Patel spoke out against Congress for failing to “talk to the people who are going to be most affected by that law,” and against FOSTA-SESTA, calling it “a charade of a bill.”

“Every small-thinking politician that wants to take a bipartisan victory back home,” he continued, “can stand around Donald Trump in the Oval Office and pat themselves on the back for coming out against trafficking when all they really did was make it very difficult for lots of people in this country to survive, and made it much more likely that they would be exploited.”

But Patel urged the attendees not to be discouraged by the massive number of votes in support. If he were to defeat a 25-year-incumbent, he wagered, politicians’ sense of self-preservation would probably kick in. “If we terrify folks by saying, we’re going to vote, and we’re going to vote in large numbers, and we’re gonna organize, and we’re gonna out-organize, you’ll be surprised to see how many more doors and conference rooms start opening up to working on repealing this, or coming up with a way to dramatically restructure it so that it exempts voluntary, consensual sex work,” he said.

He went on to push back against the idea that sex work is a niche issue, or one that wouldn’t appeal to the majority of voters. Instead of “otherizing” the issue, he suggested broadening the conversation to talk about mass incarceration, and labor rights, as well as humanizing the sex workers who have been negatively affected: “Putting faces to the violence and showing that these are real people is one huge component.” Plus, he added, “There’s an estimated 10 to 20,000 sex workers in this district. Which means that there’s, who knows how many hundreds of thousands of clients in this district.”

While Patel received a lot of applause on his vision and allyship, he also got pushback. During the Q&A portion of the event, a self-identified organizer questioned if the candidate’s support of the sex-worker community would extend beyond the campaign—even if he loses. As one of the first and few politicians to come out against the legislation, would he continue to be a face of the anti-FOSTA-SESTA movement? While Patel joked that, if things didn’t go his way, he would start by engaging in a lot of “self-care,” he continued, “I’m 34 years old, and I’m not going anywhere.”

“For me this isn’t work anymore, this is just what I like to do. And because of it, I’ll be right here with you guys all the way through. That’s a promise.”

The fact that Patel, who maintains that he wants to keep hearing from the community and evolving his positions, has yet to come out in support of full decriminalization, remained a point of frustration. One attendee explained, “What you’re saying right now, it’s great, and it’s awesome, and it’s just not enough. So I need to know that you’re going to keep listening to us, and continue that learning that you’re doing.” While she thanked Patel for coming and speaking with the community, and for opposing FOSTA-SESTA, she continued, “I need to say that I am really tired of being grateful for so little.”

The event ended with another chant, something Patel’s probably gotten a little more used to by now.

“Sex workers vote,” the crowd screamed. “And we’re voting Suraj in.”

via The Daily Beast Latest Articles

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As usual, Spring arrives early for the Salesforce world, and with it, our latest release. During this prerelease cycle, the developer evangelist team has been busy updating our gallery of sample apps with the latest and greatest features. Here’s a list of items that you can find if you pull down the latest from GitHub. What is the Sample Gallery? The sample gallery is a set of reference apps that showcase a range of low-code to pro-code developer features of the Salesforce platform. Each sample app takes an idea and implements it in the Salesforce platform along with other related apps and features e.g. mobile apps, external-facing web apps, integrations, etc. You can read about all the apps on the Sample Gallery landing page, which also contains links to source repos for each app. LWC Properties Are Automatically Reactive In Spring ‘20, the Lightning Web Component core framework has an added feature that makes all properties reactive without the need to be explicitly decorated as such. In the past, where you would have seen @track used to trigger a DOM refresh in LWC, this becomes no longer necessary. To address this, we’ve removed the @track decorator. The code below from the todoList component in the LWC Recipes app shows one instance of how this looks in our sample apps. Previously, the filteredTodos array property was decorated with @track. @track filteredTodos = []; Again, with the new “all properties are reactive” feature, this is no longer necessary; with one important exception. You must use @track to observe changes in the properties of an object or elements of an array. In other words, if you mutate an object or array in place and you want to update the DOM based on that, @track is required. Understanding array or object mutation in JavaScript is not always straightforward. However, every instance of our sample apps follows the practice of not mutating objects or arrays in place, but rather reassigning them when we need to change their state. In the filteredTodos example above, we have removed @track. todo.priority === true ); } else { this.filteredTodos = this._todos; } } ... } When the filterTodos() function is invoked, we use the Array.prototype.filter() higher order function on the “master” list of todo items in the private _todos array. The filter function always returns a new array instance, meaning the line this.filteredTodos = this._todos.filter... will always cause a new object to be assigned to this.filteredTodos and trigger the now implicit reactivity of that property. But be careful, some higher-order array functions (like Array.prototype.sort()) modify an array in place. If you find yourself using one of these, you might want to look into explicitly creating a new array or alternatively, actually use the @track decorator on that array. For more on the implementation of reactive data types in LWC, we recommend reading the documentation on that topic from the LWC open source project. Lightning Pages on Desktop and Mobile Prior to Spring ‘20, there was no easy way to bring Lightning Pages to mobile. Now, you can design your Lightning Pages for mobile as well as desktop. This includes some of the standard templates, but you can also raise the bar by creating your own custom templates. To bring this to life, we updated the custom Lightning page template in the Dreamhouse app. Custom page templates are implemented in Aura today. Above you can see the markup used to define whether the template will use a layout that supports desktop or mobile, based on information provided by the browser. We reviewed components and modified any we needed to in order for them to work in a small form factor. In addition to ensuring the components themselves were responsive, we also needed to configure the metadata file to indicate which form factors a given component supports. Finally, we configured the app as well as several record pages to be available for mobile, and we were now all set for our pages to work in both mobile and desktop. Check In Your Community For developers working with Communities, the Communities Experience Bundle is a long awaited improvement to your application lifecycle management. This new way to store your community configuration creates a bundle of files which allows you to build, configure, and customize your community as well as check the entire configuration in version control, in a JSON-based format. No more binary .site file! This change also now makes it possible to create and test your community in a scratch org and manage its deployment from the Salesforce CLI. The experience bundle feature has been in closed pilot… until now. In moving to being generally available, the experience bundle feature adds support for unlocked packages, as well as support for additional Communities configurations that weren’t in the pilot. You can see this in use and test it out in the e-bikes sample app. Please note that the effort to migrate an existing community to the experience bundle format varies greatly between orgs. If you decide to make the transition, be sure to budget time to investigate how this change will impact you. If you would like to read more about using the experience bundle, be sure to check out the Communities developer guide, or read about the implementation specs in the Metadata API developer guide. You can also watch this segment on experience bundles from the release readiness live webinar. SOQL SECURITY_ENFORCED Queries Apex has been introducing some exciting new features, and nothing is more exciting to you (and your compliance team) than more secure data access. While some of these are still in beta, we’re pleased to include the new SOQL WITH SECURITY_ENFORCED clause in most Apex classes that use SOQL (where the SOQL fits the restrictions of that feature) Here’s an example: findContacts(String searchKey) { String key = '%' + searchKey + '%'; return [ SELECT Id, Name, Title, Phone, Email, Picture__c FROM Contact WHERE Name LIKE :key AND Picture__c != null WITH SECURITY_ENFORCED LIMIT 10 ]; } The WITH SECURITY_ENFORCED clause allows you to bring object and field security into your Apex SOQL queries with one simple statement. There are a few rules around using it correctly, so be sure to check out the documentation and the release notes for implementation details. A segment from the release readiness webinar that covers the new Apex security features can be seen here. Navigating to New Records with Default Values The term “url hack” has long been fabled in the annals of Salesforce developer lore as a by-the-seat-of-your-pants “pattern”. Well, hack no longer! In Lightning, both Aura and LWC components support the ability to navigate to a new record with default values. We’ve implemented this in its own recipe in the LWC Recipes app. import { LightningElement } from 'lwc'; import { NavigationMixin } from 'lightning/navigation'; import { encodeDefaultFieldValues } from 'lightning/pageReferenceUtils'; export default class NavToNewRecord extends NavigationMixin(LightningElement) { navigateToNewContactWithDefaults() { // get encoded default values const defaultValues = encodeDefaultFieldValues({ FirstName: 'Morag', LastName: 'de Fault', LeadSource: 'Other', AccountId: '011xxxxxxxxxxxxXXX' }); console.log(defaultValues); this[NavigationMixin.Navigate]({ type: 'standard__objectPage', attributes: { objectApiName: 'Contact', actionName: 'new' }, state: { // assign default values for nav pageReference defaultFieldValues: defaultValues } }); } } Note that for the time being, sfdx-lwc-jest framework does not support the lightning/pageReferenceUtils package, so we’ve implemented a dummy test. We will however be updating this once a better solution appears.   When initiating navigation, the PageReference supports a state value to set default values, and the lightning/pageReferenceUtils utility has been added to correctly encode and decode default values. In Aura, this utility is referenced in markup as a component called Other Items of Note Coming Changes to the sample apps We’re constantly working to improve our sample apps for you. Some great things are planned to ship throughout this year. If you want to get a sneak peak of one of these you should check out Trailhead Live, where developer evangelist Kevin Poorman codes live on…drumroll…Apex Recipes! Stay tuned! You too can contribute If you have an idea for a feature to add to a sample app, or see a bug or potential improvement, we welcome your contributions to the sample apps! Details for how to contribute are located in each sample app repo. So if you see something, file an issue and we can discuss it with you; if you can write the solution, we welcome the PRs. Summing It Up As always, releases are a bit like a birthday present that comes three times a year. We hope you enjoy exploring these features in our gallery of sample apps as we all welcome Spring ‘20 to our orgs.

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Lagom: A Scandinavian Design Concept That’s *Just* Right

IKEA; West Elm, Etsy; Chairish

The world we live in can be overwhelming at times. (Hello, 24-hour news cycle and infinite social media scroll!) Wouldn’t it be nice if your home environment could offer a bit of respite from the outside chaos, or some of the balance you’re craving these days?

Well, balance is the exact goal of a Swedish design concept called lagom. The idea is all about not having too much or too little, but just the right amount. (Goldilocks would surely approve.)

“Loosely translated, lagom means ‘in-between,’” says Swedish designer Anki Spets of AREA Home in New York City. “The word doesn’t always relate to design. An everyday example of using lagom would be ‘not too hot, or not too cold.’ But as a design concept, it means ‘just right.’ Not too expensive, not too luxurious, not too spare, not too much color, etc.”

Lagom is hardly a new concept in its home country. But in the past few years, the lagom lifestyle has expanded outside of Scandinavia—and it’s not hard to understand why, says Lotta Lundaas, CEO and founder of Norse Interiors in New York City.

“People are looking for balance in their lives, more so now than before,” she says. “We’re always connected, we have all the stores in the world gathered in our mobile phones, and we can watch whatever we want, whenever we want. If we also have cluttered homes, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed, which is a driving factor for lagom becoming trendy.”

Ready to bring the balance back? Here are a few things to keep in mind when designing your lagom home.

Lagom isn’t ‘perfection’

Photo by DREAMHOUSE decorations  In Scandinavian countries such as Sweden, lagom isn’t a trend, but a way of life.

“Being from Sweden, ‘lagom’ is a word I’m really missing in the English language,” Lundaas says. “It’s something you see in Scandinavian homes, which are dominated by simplicity and a natural palette. The concept of lagom relates to the use of colors, patterns, the amount of furniture in a room, and even plants. Basically, the entirety of home décor should have the right amount of everything.”

That right amount will depend on your space and décor preferences—but don’t focus too much on perfection.

“To incorporate lagom’s philosophy, there is no right or wrong, just a feeling of balance and equality in the finished design,” says Misty Yeomans, senior color expert at PPG Paints. “You can add touches that reflect authenticity, such as a family heirloom. But don’t overdo it. Remember, lagom is all about not too much, not too little.”

Steps to get your home lagom-ready

Photo by Intro  Clutter and décor accessories that don’t add anything to your vibe are the first to go when designing your lagom-inspired space, Lundaas says.

“Less is more, so start by decluttering,” she says.

Clearing out excess furniture is next.

“Think about what your main furniture pieces should be in every room,” Lundaas suggests. “A trademark for Scandinavian design is to combine form and function. An item shouldn’t just look pretty … it should also have a practical purpose in the home.

“I like to have at least one piece of vintage furniture in every room, which I think gives it soul,” she adds. “Then I mix it with cheaper pieces, often things from Ikea, which I hack to provide with a personal twist.”

As for colors, Lundaas says to keep it simple, too.

“Pick one primary color as a base, and another two—max, three—colors to accessorize with,” she recommends.

For the main color in the room, try a warm neutral like a hazy gray or a natural white for a cozy retreat. Then use green or a touch of blue to bring a bit of nature in from outside, Yeomans suggests.

Accessorize with care

Photo by Henrik Nero  Just because you’re going for balance doesn’t mean you have to give up personality. Patterns are welcome, just as long as they aren’t overwhelming the room.

“The lagom home uses patterns sparsely, so rather than buying furniture in a funky pattern, incorporate them in the accessories like rugs, pillows, and other small décor items,” Lundaas recommends.

Spets also stresses that you don’t want the room to look barren, but cozy.

“These days, decorators are looking to warm up minimal interiors, and that is best done with a lagom amount of textiles, pillows, and throws, or a lagom amount of flowers for a pop of color, and a lagom amount of art,” she says.

Is this whole cozy idea sounding a lot like that other famous Scandinavian concept, hygge? The two are actually connected in some ways.

“It’s easy to associate lagom minimalism with a room that feels cold and impersonal,” Lundaas says. “But by making smart choices like the right lighting and incorporation of warm hygge elements like candles and blankets, you can still create a cozy atmosphere without having too many things in your home.”

What to buy for your lagom home

Ikea Landskrona sofa, $800

Charish 1940s vintage upholstered chair, $220

West Elm Valley Ridge rug, from $299

West Elm solid basket-weave throw, $79

Etsy Scandinavian leaves print, $4

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